Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such men did not often choose journalism as a career. To most of them, it remained a slightly disreputable profession, attractive to people of less elevated backgrounds--what the press critic A.J. Liebling once called "a refuge for the vaguely talented." But when Luce and Hadden set out in 1923...
If surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go...
Lunch and dinner have become painful ordeals for all involved, as crowds of students schlep their trays from the already Lilliputian serving area out of the dining hall and up to the doors of the always locked Junior Common Room. Students seeking refuge in the JCR have repeatedly been ejected...
Moving back across the Square, a grown student could (and still can) find refuge, even sanctuary, in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church behind the Inn at Harvard. We should remember this contribution in less turbulent times when enjoying the church's creative role in the production and performance of theatrical...
Marilyn and J.F.K. Monica and Bill. Kids were selling star maps on Sunset Boulevard last week. Down on the coast, a seal washed ashore in the storm and took refuge in a public rest room even as Monica was taking refuge from the El Nino of all sex scandals. And...